Castor Rock
Castor Rock is the northern of a pair of large off-lying rocks south of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. This rock, with its neighbor Pollux Rock, was named "Castor and Pollux", after the Dioscuri of Greek mythology, during the survey of these islands from RRS Discovery II in 1930.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pollux Rock and Vindication Island.
Pollux Rock
Islet
Pollux Rock is the southern of a pair of large off-lying rocks south of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. This rock, with its neighbour Castor Rock, was named "Castor and Pollux" during the survey of these islands from RRS Discovery II in 1930.
Vindication Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Vindication Island is a small uninhabited island of the Candlemas Islands in the South Sandwich Islands. It is one of about a dozen islands that make up the South Sandwich island arc, a chain of volcanoes in the Southern Ocean that was discovered in 1775 by James Cook.
Quadrant Peak
Peak
Quadrant Peak is a peak forming the summit of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. The peak forms a narrow ridge above the uniform slopes of the original volcanic cone, and is a quadrant of what was probably once a circular mass cone.
Castor Rock
- Type: Islet
- Description: rock formation in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Categories: rock formation, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-57.12777° or 57° 7′ 40″ southLongitude
-26.81497° or 26° 48′ 54″ westOpen location code
39JMV5CP+V2OpenStreetMap ID
way 975113829OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Castor Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Castor Rock”
- Chinese: “卡斯特岩”
- German: “Castor Rock”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Castor Rock”
- Spanish: “Roca Castor”
- Swedish: “Castor Rock”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Castor Rock”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.